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Arne Næss

Born

in Slemdal, Norway

January 27, 1912

Died

January 12, 2009

Genre

Philosophy,Politics

Influences

Rachel Carson,Mahatma Gandhi,Baruch Spinoza ...more

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Næss was a Norwegian philosopher, known foremost as the founder of the conceptDeep Ecology
Næss combined his ecological vision with Gandhian nonviolence and on several occasions participated in direct action events. He was the youngest person to ever be promoted to professor at Oslo University (27), a position he inhabited from 1939 to 1970.
Næss' main philosophical work from the 1950s was entitledInterpretation and Preciseness..He later developed the conclusions in that book into a simplified, practical textbook, entitledCommunication and Argument,which became a valued introduction to pragmatics or rather "language logic", and was thus used over many decades as a sine qua non for the preparatory examination at the University of Oslo, l ...more

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	Livsfilosofi: Et personlig bidrag om følelser og fornuft by Arne Næss, Per Ingvar Haukeland(Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess by Arne Næss, Alan Drengson(Editor), Bill Devall(Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There is No Point of No Return 3.42 avg rating — 173 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecology, Community and Lifestyle by Arne Næss, David Rothenberg(Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1981 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hvor kommer virkeligheten fra? samtaler med Arne Næss 4.12 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Det frie menneske 3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Filosofiens historie 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Une écosophie pour la vie 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	En del elementære logiske emner 3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1959 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Selected Works of Arne Naess by Arne Næss, Alan Drengson, Harold Glasser(Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Quality of life is here considered to be something incompatible with artificial, material standards above that necessary for the satisfaction of fundamental needs, and secondly, that ecological considerations are to be regarded as preconditions for life quality, therefore not outside human responsibility…The lifestyle of the majority should be changed so that the material standard of living in the Western countries becomes universalisable within this century. A consumption over and above that which everyone can attain within the foreseeable future cannot be justified.”
― Arne Næss, Ecology, Community and Lifestyle

tags: quality-of-life, standard-of-living

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“I want to be remembered as a professor who said a lot of stupid things to his students.”
― Arne Næss

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“GNP is therefore in a certain sense a value-neutral quantity: a measure of activity, not of activity of any kind of value. A first argument against continued growth is just this. The GNP does not give any guarantee of meaningfulness of that which is created. Growth in GNP does not imply any growth in access to intrinsic values and progress along the course of self-realization. Obviously any kind of economic growth which is not related to intrinsic values is neutral or detrimental. The measure of GNP is somehow related to the fierceness of activity in the society but this fierceness may very well have more to do with a lack of ability of the members of the society to engage in meaningful activity than a measure of something humanity should look upon with joy. There is no clear relation to life quality.”
― Arne Næss, Ecology, Community and Lifestyle

tags: economic-growth, quality-of-lifelife

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